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We have early art for the 24th November release of the new Adam Sandler film

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Universal Home Video has announced 1-disc DVD ($29.98), 2-disc DVD ($34.98), and 2-disc Blu-ray ($39.98) releases of Funny People which stars Adam Sandler, Seth Rogan and Leslie Man. Each will be available to own from the 24th November. As well as including theatrical and unrated cuts of the films, the 2-disc releases will include deleted/extended scenes, an extended gag reel, actual home videos of Adam Sandler's prank phone calls, a Line-O-Rama, and more. The Blu-ray release will also include additional U-Control ("Behind the Scenes Picture in Picture Commentary"), and BD-Live features. Early art is attached:

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mc_serenity wrote: MiseryMatt wrote: That's going to be a Weinstein Company release.

No, it's not. The Weinstein Company only holds the theatrical and pay TV distribution rights for "Inglourious Basterds," whilst Universal holds the worldwide theatrical and home video rights. The two companies had a 50/50 profit deal with each other to minimize costs.

Serenity is correct. Universal has the home video rights, they will release the Blu-ray on what looks to be "may not be official" December 15th of this year.

Tyler Foster wrote: Easily Apatow's best film to date, and those with cinematic attention-deficit disorder are completely wrong to claim the film is "too long" as a blanket statement.

If that's true, then it sure took its sweet time getting to the point. I recognize that Apatow wants to broaden his range (he was obviously aiming to make a more vulgar James L. Brooks style movie), but for me, he failed. Apatow should go out more, and stop inviting his friends and family to star in each movie he directs.

I love "40 Year Old Virgin," but Apatow needs to tone down his spending. "Funny People" is his first real flop, and Universal is going to keep a tighter hand on the pursestrings for Apatow's next movie (whatever it may be).

Easily Apatow's best film to date, and those with cinematic attention-deficit disorder are completely wrong to claim the film is "too long" as a blanket statement. I'm sure the film could be edited tighter, but I didn't feel there were any notable scenes in the movie that served no purpose whatsoever. Of all the films during Universal's box-office failure summer, this one deserved to fail the least.

That said, I totally agree that there isn't much conceivable reason for this movie to have cost $70 million dollars to make.

This movie was terrible. It wasn't bad enough to make me give up on Apatow, because this is his only failure to date, but it was just awful. Probably 3-4 laughs throughout the excruciatingly long run time. The rest was pure boredom. With a title like "Funny People" and a hilarious cast, it should have been funny, but this never happened. I would be interested to see if the unrated is any funnier, though, but I won't be picking this one up.

I'm still befuddled by the $70 million pricetag for "Funny People." A comedy-drama should've been in Apatow's usual range of $10-35 million. Was Janusz Kaminski's asking price in the millions? Were Apatow and the lead actors' asking fees too much? Was the on-location shooting in Los Angeles too much?

Honestly, the reason why the studios churn out comedies is because they're (or should be) cheap to make. Universal would've been fine if FP had a small $10-30 million pricetag, and if Apatow wants to make his films his way -- he'll need to be creative with a smaller budget.

Funny People is a MUCH more mature film from what Apatow has given us. I'm GLAD that he's actually trying something different because to be honest if he gave us another Knocked Up or another 40-Year Old Virgin type of film, his style would REALLY get old.

The film actually looks good; Cinematography is actually very well done, the script is well written and acting is great! Leslie Mann was heartbreaking in her performance but Sandler was a standout! His breakdown scene with Rogen was FANTASTIC!

Did it drag on? Maybe a bit near the second half with Eric Bana but I was still interested.

I love Leslie Mann (ever since she was Ursula in "George of the Jungle&quot and Apatow is lucky to have her. But come on, Apatow is pulling a Zombie and casting his wife in every movie he makes -- you don't have to do it every time, dude. Once or twice is fine, but three...

OK first things first, the trailers and ads had SEVERAL scenes either altered(for content) or simply deleted all together and thats why i'm pumped for the blu ray b/c these guys usually give us boatloads of cut footage. As for the film, it was the one movie this summer i was looking forward to most and while i enjoyed it, i cant help but admit it was kinda disapointing. I will get it, but it could have been so much more. I think the tone bothered me. It wants it both ways. I dont mind it being a sweet film but it too often resorted to toilet humor and LITERALLY penis jokes every other scene.

No, it's not. The Weinstein Company only holds the theatrical and pay TV distribution rights for "Inglourious Basterds," whilst Universal holds the worldwide theatrical and home video rights. The two companies had a 50/50 profit deal with each other to minimize costs.

Apatow's WORST film to date. It's not that funny, way too long and Universal made the crucial mistake of revealing the ending in the trailers. (And what was with the $70 million pricetag? It looked like it was made on half that.)

And what's with Apatow's fetish of focusing solely on nebbish, chunky Jewish guys from L.A. for his past two films? Not all of us are like Jonah Hill or Seth Rogen, or crack lame pop-culture jokes just because they can.